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   The Medieval Period and Isolate Development
   During the European Middle Ages, sophisticated cartographic techniques were often preserved or advanced outside the core European intellectual centers. In the Islamic Golden Age, scholars like Muhammad al-Idrisi produced highly detailed regional maps (Tabula Rogeriana, 1154) that often superiorly rendered North African and Iberian coastlines compared to contemporary European Mappaemundi. The…